Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

Colorful murals by Jean Cocteau hide within this peaceful London sanctuary.

King of the Saxons on top, Roman goddess of wisdom on the bottom.

It celebrates a very stinky task and salutes London's fatberg-vanquishing team.

Historic church where a number of Shakespeare's actors are buried.

A building that survived WWII, possibly on the virtue of its name alone.

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

These Victorian era devil sculptures were designed to spite a local vicar.

Buried for centuries, this hidden cellar is all that remains of London's medieval Whitefriars Monastery.

This 19th-century pub features stained-glass windows celebrating Victorian-era "champions."

This once-controversial and slightly confusing statue of Achilles was built out of captured cannons.

An eccentric Victorian aristocrat's enormous collection of medieval armor and weapons from around the world.

Heralded as the oldest statue in London.

At the top of the hour, figures of the London department store's two co-founders emerge and bow to each other.

A mysterious shape catches the eye in this 16th-century painting.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

An unusual ode to the late Irish playwright, complete with a squiggly bust and coffin-shaped bench.

The medieval woodcut-style artwork chronicles life in medieval London.

A series of carved figures that scandalized British society.

This ancient Egyptian obelisk still bears the wounds of World War I.

These ornate arches show how the course of the River Thames has changed.

The sumptuous ceiling was one of the last things Charles I saw before his execution.